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Ok, how would you feel If I told people to vote third party then?

Buddy, it's still a semi-free country. You can tell people whatever you like.

Good day to you.

With the Gilead party in control it's only a matter of time.

Nah, he'll become a brownshirt.

I am so fucking tired of the “vote blue no matter who!”

Can you point to the part of my comment where I said anything at all about voting for Democrats? Because I'm pretty sure I wrote a very lengthy comment about Republicans and Conservatives.

Giving R more power at any level is laughably foolish. Everyone understands that today, I just hope people remember it this time.

I also included this:

(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

And you gave me hundreds of words of whataboutism. 😂

I hope it was cathartic for you to get all that out, though.

No Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions.

 

I fucking love it.

Proof that they only scream when they are getting stabbed themselves.

If folks can somehow retain one and only one thing if we get through all this without civil war:

R wants power, and they want to hurt anyone who doesn't fit a fairly narrow demographic. That's all they have ever wanted, and every policy or position out of R in the past many years is all the proof you need.

When R gets power they start breaking shit and hurting people. It's the only outcome of modern conservatism. And when they say "enough is enough" it's ONLY because the policies they supported and cheered for finally start to blow back on them.

IF we make it through this folks, DO NOT FORGET. Don't vote R ever again, not for the lowliest local position, not for the highest position. Not for any position. I'm in my 50s and I'm telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I've been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

(and don't come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

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I'm telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I've been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

This is so true that they tried to convince people it wasn't true with a targeted rebranding in the 90s. I don't think anyone bought it even then. Compassionate Conservatism

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"the homegrowns are next" - Mr. Donald J. Trump, April 2025

Interesting!!

So we still think obeying judges is something the Trump admin intends to do, even now?

Any day now these consequences are going to start showing up, amirite guys?

Government agencies literally doing nothing resembling their description for the people. I grew up in the cold war, and these were among the sorts of stories we heard about the Soviet Union.

We are nothing more than another natural resource to these people,and as long as enough of the herd is healthy, that's good enough for them.

Oh well, I'm sure Trump can just annex China along with Greenland and Canada. Don't sweat it folks. Right after grocery prices come down, I'm sure.

If the first week and a half had been indicative of the rest of the campaign we’d have a woman in the white house right now. Skipping a meeting with Bibi, picking walz, Republicans are weird, joy, the coconut shit. Cringe as fuck but people were excited and that’s all that matters in American politics, then she came out and gave a full throated right wing speech at the dnc and it all went down from there.

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So Kamala had no duty to motivate the people she wanted to vote for her? That seems a bit backwards from how I've always understood elections.

I agree that "Not Trump" actually should be enough in today's climate - but it wasn't in 2016, so why trot out that playbook again? Seems shortsighted and stupid, almost as if corporate donations and Republican voters seemed more imporantant to the DNC than Democrat voters, who were just expected to be "in the bag."

I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.

Oh I voted for Harris (and am also not the person you replied to) but "Compromise on all your ideals" describes the trajectory of the Kamala candidacy quite well. And that's best case. Worst case, as the atlantic suggested way back in 2020, she didn't share those ideals to begin with.

And that sprint to the right that she made didn't move the needle on R voters at all. She should have campaigned like she wanted Democrat votes, but she didn't. She talked a lot about her Glock and got cozy with the war criminals of the prior generation, didn't talk much about climate change, and even gave space on stage to Liz Cheney at the DNC instead of even giving a single minute to a pro-Palestine Democrat, to try getting some of the basket of deplorables to pick her. None of them did, and it didn't make Democrats very happy either.

Maybe if the Democratic candidate had acted like she wanted Democrat votes, this map would have looked different in the end.